Dr. Rogier Hopstaken, MD, PhD
Physician and Researcher
Dr Rogier is a physician and researcher from The Netherlands. He works as a General Practitioner in a primary healthcare centre, and as an innovation specialist at a diagnostics centre. His special interest is in point-of-care diagnostic testing, and much of his research in collaboration with a variety of universities, centres around POCT, lower respiratory tract infections, C-Reactive Protein, and antimicrobial resistance. He is the principal author of The Dutch Multi-Disciplinary Guidelines on Point-of-Care Testing in Primary Care, and he chairs the special interest group for point-of-care testing of the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA).